What Darwin never knew / a Nova/WGBH production ; produced by Matthew Barrett, John Rubin, and Sarah Holt ; written by John Rubin ; directed by John Rubin, Rushmore Denooyer, Serena Davies, and Sarah Holt.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: NOVA6188 | PBS DistributionDistributor: [Arlington, Va.?] : PBS DistributionCopyright date: ©2010Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 112 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Audience:
  • Unrated
  • General
ISBN:
  • 9781608830985
  • 1608830985
Uniform titles:
  • Nova (Television program)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 576.8/2 22
  • 576.8 14
LOC classification:
  • QH375 .W43 2010
NLM classification:
  • 2010 AV-0044
  • QH 366.2
Contents:
Unanswered questions -- The Galapagos -- Descent with modification -- Natural selection -- The magic of DNA -- 23,000 genes -- Fruit flies -- Gene switches -- A transitional form -- From fins to limbs -- The hand -- Our brains -- What makes us human?
Lance Lewman, narrator.Summary: The source of the earth's great variety of animals was a scientific mystery until Charles Darwin proposed the idea of natural selection. Nova presents breakthroughs in a new science nicknamed "evo devo" that are linking the enigma of origins to another of nature's mysteries, the development of embryos.
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Copyright date on credit frame: 2009; copyright date on container: 2010.

Documentary.

Based on the books: Endless forms most beautiful ; and, The making of the fittest / by Sean B. Carroll.

Originally produced for the television program on Nova in 2009.

Unanswered questions -- The Galapagos -- Descent with modification -- Natural selection -- The magic of DNA -- 23,000 genes -- Fruit flies -- Gene switches -- A transitional form -- From fins to limbs -- The hand -- Our brains -- What makes us human?

Lance Lewman, narrator.

The source of the earth's great variety of animals was a scientific mystery until Charles Darwin proposed the idea of natural selection. Nova presents breakthroughs in a new science nicknamed "evo devo" that are linking the enigma of origins to another of nature's mysteries, the development of embryos.

Not rated.

DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital stereo., NTSC.

Closed-captioned; described for the visually impaired.

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